Quotes about Native america

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To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definition — N. Scott Momaday
As for me, I have a choice between honoring that dark life I've seen so many years moving in the junipers, or of walking — Linda Hogan
There is no real aloneness. There is solitude and the nurturing silence that is relationship with ourselves, but even th — Linda Hogan, Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
We are looking for a tongue that speaks with reverence for life, searching for an ecology of mind. Without it, we have n — Linda Hogan, Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
What a strange alchemy we have worked, turning earth around to destroy itself, using earth's own elements to wound it. — Linda Hogan, Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
Caretaking is the utmost spiritual and physical responsibility of our time, and perhaps that stewardship is finally our — Linda Hogan, Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
Om-nipotent, Om-nipresent, Om-niscient, Omall is wholly undivided, instructed the physicist, David Bohmthe enfolded and — Jarett Sabirsh, Love All-Knowing: An Epic Spiritual Poem
When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw some of those India — William Faulkner, Collected Stories
My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered — Chief Seattle, The Chief Seattle's Speech
And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all its heart--that it — Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
Never has America lost a war ... But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but this count — Vine Deloria Jr., Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting. — Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Shit," he said. "I don't know why you're feeling sorry for yourself because you ain't had to fight a war. You're lucky. — Sherman Alexie
That is the way a white man remembers a battle. So many soldiers here, so many there. Such a captain here. Such a lieute — Will Henry
The Talmud states, "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly n — Bridges McCall
No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. T — Luis Valdez
The Native Americans, whose wisdom Thoreau admired, regarded the Earth itself as a sacred source of energy. To stretch o — Frédéric Gros, A Philosophy of Walking
But nobody wanted to speak on the true disposition of the world. And no one wanted to hear it...The whites came to this — Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
But, my dear friend Wildfire," said Carl Peterson laying his hand on the Indian's shoulder, "this is not a policy to liv — S. Alice Callahan, Wynema: A Child of the Forest
Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look a — Henry Ford